If you're vaccinated, here's what you may be able to expect with new COVID-19 waves and what experts still don't know.
reported during the omicron wave were considered less severe than the infections recorded in people who were unvaccinated or only partially vaccinated.suggests long COVID is significantly less likely in vaccinated people who have had COVID-19.
The vast majority of breakthrough infections — which Meyer prefers to call post-vaccination infections — have been mild. But i, an epidemiologist and professor of infectious diseases with Stanford Medicine, stressed that mild COVID-19 illnesses can be anything from a runny nose for a couple days to being run-down and bedridden for a week. Mild infections essentially involve all the cases where people get sick but don’t end up in the hospital. It’s a wide range.
Over the next few months, as we come further off the omicron surge, we’ll likely see a lull in the number of infections occurring.
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